Bones protect the vital organs inside the body and provide the leverage for muscles. Development of bones start right from the time the foetus is in mother’s womb and continues till adulthood. Bone ...

Scientists have demonstrated for the first time ever that there are fetal brain developments that can be measured using functional magnetic resonance tomography in the womb. This means that ...

DELAYED parturition leads to quite different results, depending on the species, in its effects on the offspring. In some, like the rabbit with normally a gestation period of 30 to 32 days, the fetuses ...

Female embryos exert a greater influence than male embryos over the hormone that nurtures early pregnancy, and the difference can be detected as little as 16 days after conception, according to new ...

In April, Nebraska passed a controversial first-in-the-nation law banning abortion of a fetus after 20 weeks' gestation. Now, in a blow to America's anti-abortion lobby, a British report has undercut ...

Thyroid hormones are among the most important hormones that control the speed of your body’s metabolism. However, in infants, the thyroid hormone is highly critical for their brain development. Your ...

Pregnant women who take the pain killer ibuprofen in the first 24 weeks of their pregnancy may be reducing the store of eggs in the ovaries of their daughters. Researchers have found the first ...

IN work concerned with pre-natal growth measurements in sheep and their relation to patterns of mammalian growth 1 it was necessary to obtain estimates of changes during development in the specific ...

Mouse embryos have been grown in microgravity on the International Space Station (ISS) in the first hint that humans may be able to reproduce in space. Japanese researchers sent frozen embryos to the ...